AI Measure Requires Federal Agencies to Adopt Safety Standards

A new bipartisan bill seeks to limit the risks of artificial intelligence by requiring federal agencies to adopt safety standards around the emerging technology’s use.

Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) on Thursday proposed the legislation, which would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology to provide guidance to agencies to deploy AI safely and securely.

As AI models rapidly developed, NIST in January released a comprehensive framework on mitigating potential harms, such as privacy violations and bias, for companies to follow voluntarily. Thursday’s legislation would require federal agencies to adopt that framework.

The guidelines “should be ...